Friday, October 10, 2014

“The Lord Laughs at the Wicked,” but Jesus does not because Jesus was not the Lord

The Psalms say, "The Lord laughs at the wicked..." But, why didn’t the “Gospels” record Jesus laughing at the wicked?

NIV Psalm 37:13 ”but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he knows their day is coming.

From chabad.org Psalm 37:13. “The Lord will scoff at him because He saw that his day will come”

To be sure, laughing at wicked people is a good deed according to the Torah because the Torah commands people to emulate Hashem. www.jewfaq.org reports that it is a mitzvah to, “To imitate His good and upright ways (Deut. 28:9)”

This is not problem for me as a nonChristian. But, laughing at people is out of character for Jesus,o? Jesus got angry. For example, when Jesus threw a temper tantrum at the Temple, he was angry.

The Hebrew language differentiates between ethics with respect to an evil person versus the ethics with respect to a wicked person. This is important because the definition of a wicked person is, “One who says ‘’what is mine is mine, and what is yours is mine.” A wicked person is precisely the kind of person who would be gypping people at the Temple, and instead of laughing at them as scriptures tells us to do, Jesus went postal. Literature sacred to Christians might be more believable if Jesus laughed at the behavior of folks at the Temple. I don't believe laughter occurs even once in the New Testament.

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